If you want to jail break your Apple TV, one can install ATV Flash Black from Firecord www.firecore.com on your Apple TV. From there, you can use shares with Samba (windoww) AFP (Apple) or Linux (NFS). The media player has a library which is searchable provided shares are set up. Your other alternate would be to use a itunes server (it may or may not be on your NAS) but a computer running ITUNES must be on, and home sharing must be active for this to work properly. Jail breaking only currently works on the Apple TV 1 and 2, but a break is in the works for teh ATV3. I use this option (I don't jail break my phones, but I definitely do with ATV, and myself and my family love the access to the movies we own on the server. I can even play DVS movie audio tracks, and if I've encoded the DVDS correctly with Handbreak, I can access (accessibly with VO) the audio tracks. ATV flash black integrates with the Apple menus and is therefore fully accessible.
Hope this helps. Let me know if I can help anymore. Noel On May 26, 2013, at 7:33 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, I believe that the Apple TV requires Home Sharing to be able to pull things from the local network. Music and other media that is purchased through Apple and thus stored in iCloud can also be streamed to the Apple TV but I'm pretty sure that regular sharing is not compatible due to the method of sharing. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-05-26, at 1:43 PM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav <for...@talknav.com> wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know, can an Apple TV pull content from a NAS on a local network? Either by providing the Apple TV in some manner the IP address, folder share and user credentials of the share so that it can scan the folder, or, by enabling iTunes Server which is a feature of my NAS. iTunes Server is not the same as Home Sharing as found in iTunes the application. Any thoughts much appriciated… Essentually what I want to do is use something like Apple TV to stream content from a share on my NAS rather than having to push to it from iTunes or an iOS device. thanks. Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL: - www.talknav.com e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
